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Jay Carney rejects idea of carbon tax

White House spokesman Jay Carney Jan. 23 deflated environmentalists’ hope of a major federal program to counter climate change, by declaring that the “we have no intention of proposing a carbon tax.”

Carney’s statement is a letdown for progressive climate-control advocates, who say the federal government has the regulatory and taxing power to try to affect the globe’s temperature by curbing the release of carbon dioxide from cars, houses, factories, power plants.

On Jan 9, Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Saunders introduced a bill that would levy a tax on companies that generate carbon dioxide. The bill is unlikely to pass, partly because economists argue it would further burden the nation’s slow growing economy.

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The carbon tax is just a way for them to get the money they want. If Carney says they won’t try to get it through the carbon tax, it’s because they have other ideas about getting it that they believe have a better chance of success.

Just a new regulation will do. One where it takes 12 people to sit in an Office and fill out forms and run test and fill out other forms and fill documents and reports to the EPA to comply with the regulations. This in turn reduces the money and profit that the energy companies make as they have to pay the 12 people to comply with the regulations. They can not invest in new ways because they have to pay to retrofit the old ways.

No, but as we all know, approving and inventing “taxes” (even if the government goes in not even arguing that it is a tax) to override our Constitutional Rights is Chief “Justice” John Roberts specialty…